Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pectinate.
- Interdigitated; interlaced like the teeth of two combs.
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- adjective anatomy, zoology, botany Having narrow
ridges orprojections aligned close together like the teeth of acomb .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The claws are powerful and but slightly curved, and that of the median toe is not pectinated as in the herons.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various
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Antennæ shorter than the thorax, broadly pectinated except towards the tips.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Antennæ slightly pectinated, slightly hooked at the tips.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Antennæ slightly pectinated to nearly two-thirds of the length, bare from thence to the tips.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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Antennæ moderately pectinated, hardly shorter than the body.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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The moth was very still now, exploring the interstices between tumbler and table with heavy, pectinated antennæ.
Barbarians 1899
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It is about the same size, and has the body ringed with black and yellow; the legs are brown; the femora on underside fringed with whitish hairs, simply pectinated; many of the pectinations of the antennae end in a bristle-like hair; palpi somewhat prominent; last joint pointed.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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"To set crosselegg'd, or with our fingers pectinated or shut together, is accounted bad, and friends will perswade us from it.
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i is compreffed on the fides fo, that one fharp edge goes upwards and the other downwards: the hind feet are not palmated, or joined by a moveable fkin, but are peculiar for having on both fides of the feet, long, white, clofe, pectinated, off - fbnding hair, befides the fhort hair with which the feet are quite covered.
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